Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.